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He did not regard the question as on
which the senate was at liberty to conside
or to set aside as it chose The power t.
make the proposed investigation was no
only unquestioned but irresistible
Mr.. Evarts 4 member of the committee
sustained the resolution and argued tina
there could be no better time than III,
present for making the investigation.
was of great importance to the country-tt
the state of Texas, and to the southern
peOple-that now, when there was an Cd
pOrtunity TO prove under the authority o.
the senate that this was mere waving o.
the bloodg shirt 1t should do so.
Mr.. Salisbury offered an amendment re
curing the investigation 10 be in Washing
ton county. Texas
Mr. Hoar opposed The amendment. Tho
question should be left to the discretion
and judgment Of the committee.
The amendment was rejected-yeas %,
nays 81
Mr. Call opposed the resolution as an at
tack on the very life Of the government
and American institutions. 1t was dec
larafion that the senate Of the United States
(separated widely from the sympathies Of
the people, believed that people in the diff
ferent states and communities could not be
trusted.
The vote was then taken and the resolu-
ton was ad0pted-yeas 81, nays gas fol
lows:
Yeas-Aldrich, Blair, Bowen, Chase,
Cheney, CGnger, CullOm, Edmunds, Evarts,
Farwell, Frye, Hail. Hawley, Hoar, In
gals, Jones of Nevada, Mcmillan, Malone,
Henderson, Miller, Mitchell of Pcnnsyl-
vania, Morrill,, Plat, Sabin Sawyer, Sc
well, Sherman, Spooner, Teller, Williams,
Wilson Of IOwa-31.
Nays Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Brown,
Cali, CoEe, Colquitt, Eustis, George, Glib
son, German, Gray, Hampton, Harris,
Jones Of Arkansas, Kenna, Mcpherson,
Morgan. Payne, Pugh, Ransom, Salisbury,
Vance, Vest, Walthall, Whitthorne-26.
The senate then resumed consideration
of the bill to establish agricultural expert
mcnt stations in connection with the agri
cultural colleges established under the act
of July ,, 1888.
Mr. Morgan stated his objection TO the
bill to be that it did not place any control
over the subject within the power Of the
several states. He thought that the con-
troll of the agricultural colleges should be
placed entirely in the hands of the states
Mr. Vest denied that there was any gen
erai uprising among the agriculturists of
the country in favor Of the bill. He had
written to the commissioner Of education
for information rs TO the number Of stu
dents in the land grant colleges who were
actually studying agriculture, and lie had
received a communication giving figures
to the point. He proceeded to read from
this communication, showing that a very
small pro SOrtien Of the students at these
agricultural colleges were studying agri-
culture.
Statements showing that these statistics
were misleading were made 10y MeSsrs
George, Frye, Berry, Hoar, Blair, ingalls,,
Teller and others.
Mr.. Vest said he had resortcd to the best
source of information on the SUBJECTIVE
commissioner Ct -oducation-if the Stats
tics furnished were not grossly false and
misleading they made Il lamentablc show
ing as to the interest taken by the people Of
the United States in agricultural educa-
ton.
MIR. Morrill,, (the anthor OF the original
agricultural college bilD explained what
the object Of that bill was. 1t had never
been intended that students at those col
leges should graduate as farmers; they were
intended for the double purpose of teaching
agriculture and the mechanical arts.
After long discussion aud the Offering
of, and voting on large number of amend
mentS Mr. Hawley offered a substitute for
the bill, and on his motion the bill and sub
stitute were ordered printed and the matter
went over till tomorrow.
The railroad attorney bill vas then taken
up and Mr.. Berry gained the floor to dis
cuss il. but the senate Immediately went
into secret session and when the doors re-
opened adjourned